Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zikan

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Johnleemk | Talk 15:56, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Zikan

Continuing the clean-up of Soviet WWII articles, this is another highly suspect article which deals with a person never identified by name, but referenced once in a single non-authoritative book. Wikipedia cannot afford to be misused to further misinformation, simply because much of the Western world is ignorant of Soviet WWII personalities. Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 08:34, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete as unverifiable. The book "Stalingrad" does mention Zikan — in exactly the one sentence mentioned in the article. Googling for "Zikan sniper" seems to reveal that same sentence copied verbatim (and a lot of Call of Duty players with that nick). Since Zikan means "cheater" etc there is a good chance he was a war propaganda hoax. Unless sources surface either delete, or mention the probability of war propagaganda in the article. A published book and a couple of hundred ghits — just on the fence of being a notable hoax. Weregerbil 13:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unless better verified. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 23:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Note possible propaganda as per Weregerbil. If Zikan really existed, Wikipedia should have an entry on him(or her), and if not, the possibility of a hoax should be clearly noted, rather than allowing people to make conclusions without all the facts. Yvh11a 17:00, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.